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Dowloading a file tries to mount a network drive; when the network computer is offline, after a long time a message says "connection failed".

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courosh
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When dowloading from gmail or some other website, Firefox tries to mount a network drive -- on another computer. If the other computer is offline, there is a 30 sec delay, and an error message says "connection failed". This adds 30 sec to each download!

When dowloading from gmail or some other website, Firefox tries to mount a network drive -- on another computer. If the other computer is offline, there is a 30 sec delay, and an error message says "connection failed". This adds 30 sec to each download!

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cor-el
cor-el
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Try to delete the file downloads.sqlite in the Profile Folder

Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder

courosh
courosh Question owner
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Thanks for the suggestion. I deleted the file and restarted Firefox, but that did not fix the problem.

courosh
courosh Question owner
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I ended up deleting my profile and creating a new one. That seems to work!

eddified
eddified
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I solved this by clearing all history (Cookies, Cache, Browsing & download history, etc... everything.)

eddified
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Attaching image documenting the problem.

FoZFoRiC
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Alot of problems like this sounds like a hi-jacking gone wrong. That's why clearing all history (Cookies, Cache, Browsing & download history, etc...) is a good idea all the time, many hi-jacking and tracking tactics used by advertisers rely on the fact few people set their browser to clear all private data on close. And a lot of redirects, corrupted address, and malicious stuff can cause weird network resource behavior

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